It is with great sadness that we have learned of the death of Dr Martin Seah MBE in early June. Martin's career directly contributed to the success of the Kratos' surface analysis business group, establishing XPS as the primary technique for chemical surface characterisation. Whilst we mourn the loss, we also celebrate the significant contributions that Martin made to the advancement of XPS, AES and the surface analysis community.

Kratos Analytical is adapting to the rapidly changing global business environment brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. We are committed to maintaining our ongoing business operations and continue to operate within Covid-safe guidelines.

Due to replacing our demo instruments with the newly launched AXIS Supra+ we now have two ex-demo AXIS Supra instruments for sale. The opportunity to purchase an AXIS Supra doesn’t come along very often – so you’ll have to be quick to secure this bargain.

During the recent ECASIA’19 we met up with Dr. Lidiya Kibis who is working at the Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, part of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Our interest was sparked when Dr. Kibis told us that her institute were generating data from a Kratos ES-300. Whilst we doubt that there are any working spectrometers older than the ES-300 at Boreskov Institute of Catalysis we’d welcome your stories to help us celebrate Kratos’ 50 years of XPS.